The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next.
With AI accelerating reconnaissance, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and privilege escalation, attackers can move through systems faster than security teams can investigate. A compromised account that looks legitimate at first could become the starting point for a much
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.
A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list.
Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data